Stage, Film and Television Productions of Hamlet
[How to read this list: I have first given the date, the medium (after 1900, for obvious reasons), and some pertinent information about the production. This is followed by the director/producer in parentheses and then the actors in this order: Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude and Ophelia. For most of the earlier productions of the play I have listed only the actor who played Hamlet. With a few notable exceptions, I have restricted the list to English and American productions of the play.]
- 1757. London, Covent Garden Theatre. David Ross.
- 1759. Philadelphia (the first production of Hamlet in the United States). Thomas Hallam.
- 1761. New York, New Theatre in Chappel Street. Thomas Hallam.
- 1777. London, Haymarket Theatre. John Henderson.
- 1780. London, Drury Lane Theatre. John Bannister.
- 1798. London, Covent Garden Theatre. Henry Johnson.
- 1807. London, Haymarket Theatre. Charles Young.
- 1810. New York. George Frederick Cooke.
- 1814. London, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Edmund Kean.
- 1820. New York. Edmund Kean.
- 1821. New York. J. B. Booth.
- 1826. New York. William Charles Macready.
- 1830. New York. Charles Kean.
- 1832. New York. Charles Kemble.
- 1838. London, Covent Garden. William Charles Macready.
- 1849. London, Haymarket Theatre. William Charles Macready.
- 1849. London, Surrey Theatre. William Creswick.
- 1850. London, Princess's Theatre. Charles Kean.
- 1852. London, Haymarket Theatre. Barry Sullivan.
- 1864. London, The Lyceum Theatre. Charles Fechter.
- 1864. London, Sadler's Wells Theatre. Alice Marriott.
- 1874. London, The Lyceum Theatre. Sir Henry Irving.
- 1884. London, Princess's Theatre. Wilson Barrett.
- 1893. London, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Jean Mounet-Sully.
- 1899. London, Adelphi Theatre. Sarah Bernhardt.
- 1905. Stage. London, Adelphi Theatre (Sir Henry Irving). Sir Henry Irving. Oscar Asche. Maud Milton. Lily Brayton.
- 1913. Film (E. Hay Plumb). Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson. Walter Ringham. Gertrude Elliott. ?.
- 1925. Stage. London, Haymarket Theatre (John Barrymore). John Barrymore. Malcolm Keen. Constance Collier. Fay Compton.
- 1934. Stage. London, New Theatre (John Gielgud). John Gielgud. Frank Vosper. Laura Cowie. Jessica Tandy.
- 1948. Film. Two Cities Film, the J. Arthur Rank Organization (Laurence Olivier). Laurence Olivier. Basil Sydney. Eileen Herlie. Jean Simmons.
- 1953. Television. NBC, The Hallmark Hall of Fame (Albert McCleery and George Schaefer). Maurice Evans. Joseph Schildkraut. Ruth Chatterton. Sarah Churchill.
- 1959. Television. CBS, DuPont Show of the Month (Ralph Nelson). John Neville. Oliver Neville. Margaret Courtenay. Barbara Jefford.
- 1960. Film (Franz Peter Wirth). Maximilian Schell. Hans Caninenberg. Wanda Rotha. Dunja Movar.
- 1964. Stage (John Gielgud). Richard Burton. Alfred Drake. Eileen Herlie. Linda Marsh.
- 1964. Film. In Russian translation by Boris Pasternak with English subtitles (Grigori Kozintsev). Innokenti Smokhtunovski. Mikhail Nazvanov. Elza Radzin-Szolkonis. Anatasia Verinskaya.
- 1964. Television. (Hamlet at Elsinore). BBC Television (Philip Saville). Christopher Plummer. Robert Shaw. June Tobin. Jo Maxwell Muller.
- 1969. Film. Filmways Co. (Tony Richardson). Nicol Williamson. Anthony Hopkins. Judy Parfitt. Marianne Faithfull.
- 1970. Television. NBC, Hallmark Hall of Fame an adaptation of a Royal Shakespeare Company production (Peter Wood). Richard Chamberlain. Richard Johnson. Margaret Leighton. Ciaran Madden.
- 1971. Television. CBS (David Giles). Ian McKellen. John Woodvine. Faith Brook. Susan Fleetwood.
- 1975. Stage. Joseph Papp, the New York Shakespeare Festival (Michael Rudman). Sam Waterson. Robert Burr. Ruby Dee. Andrea Marcovicci.
- 1979. Stage. Circle Repertory Theatre (Marshall Mason). William Hurt. Douglas Watson. Beatrice Straight. Lindsay Crouse.
- 1980. Film version originally shown on television. BBC Time/Life Production (Rodney Bennett). Derek Jacobi. Patrick Stewart. Claire Bloom. Lalla Ward.
- 1981. Stage. Boston Shakespeare Company (Bill Cain). Henry Woronicz. David Fonteno. Sandra Shipley. Ursula Drabik.
- 1982. Stage. American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut (Peter Coe). Christopher Walken. Fred Gwynne. Anne Baxter. Lisabeth Bartlett.
- 1982. Stage. McCarter Theatre Co, Princeton (Nagle Jackson). Harry Hamlin. Meil Vipond. Jill Tanner. Stacy Ray.
- 1982. Stage. Joseph Papp, The New York Shakespeare Festival (Joseph Papp). Diane Venora. Bob Gunton. Kathleen Widdoes. Pippa Pearthree.
- 1984. Stage. American Shakespeare Repertory (Jane Farrow). Douglas Overtoom. Timothy Flanagan. Holly Booker (played both Gertrude and Ophelia).
- 1984. Stage. Classic Stage Company (Christopher Martin). Noble Shropshire. John Camera. Mary Eileen O'Donnell. Ginger Grace.
- 1990. Film. Warner Brothers (Franco Zefferelli). Mel Gibson, Alan Bates, Glenn Close, Helena Bonham-Carter.